The shorter and the plainer the better.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

With opportunity the world is very interesting.

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

Happy is very abstract, you can't touch it.

The only place the broken past has in our present, is the place we give it.

Stupidity is actually in a way the mark of intelligence - if you're not doing stupid things that defy logic you're probably not taking enough risks.

To all the living there is hope for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.

Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.